Withering Ambition

Blinded By Love

A final slash, and the last of the army blocking him from the libraries of spells was felled. He limped towards the great doors, his leg injured from his fight with Goldor. He stumbled and fell to the ground. 

He stayed there for a decent while, resting his body. This was exhausting. Slowly but surely, he stood back up, and pushed open the great doors, stumbling into the opening that appeared between them.

Kaeman walked battered into the libraries. He had finally made it. He began casting a spell to burn down the shelves of spells, but he was stopped by a voice that made his heart spin.

"Kaeman, stop!" 

His head whipped around and he saw the one thing he needed. Sarah... she was here. And there were others. Civilians had taken shelter in the library. He felt his eyes well up with tears. He had not seen his wife in weeks. He ran towards her to embrace her.

"Please... stay away..."

Kaeman was shocked, and he began to cry. He knew this would happen. He was not lovable anymore. He looked to his side and saw his reflection in a broken mirror. What had he become? A shell of himself, all for revenge. He had thrown away his entire life just for a bit of revenge. He fell to his knees and put his hands over his face, or what was left of it, at least. 

"What happened to you? Why are you doing this?"

Sarah's words resonated in his head as he felt his skull pounding with a splitting headache. A ringing sounded in his ears. He just wanted everything to go back to normal. He just wanted to go back to being a normal person, someone who could live their life. 

"I... don't know... what I am anymore..."

Sarah carefully approached Kaeman, wanting to comfort him. But she was still hesitant, as he didn't look the same. His voice was raspy, his face was withered, in fact, his whole body was withered. But somewhere under all of that was her husband. The man she loved. And he was in pain, great pain.

Kaeman felt a hand on his shoulder, and he looked up to see his wife. A slight smile spread across his face, as tears continued to stream from his eyes. 

"It's ok, Kaeman. You can stop now. We can still be together."

Kaeman stood up, and fell into Sarah's arms, sobbing. She still loved him... 

"Even with all that I have done? You still love me?"

Sarah nodded her head. 

"Of course I do. I will always love you. You were my first love, and you will be my last."

Kaeman clutched Sarah with all his might, and for the first time in weeks, he was happy. He was where he was meant to be. Perhaps, everything would be ok. His mind was filled with happy memories with Sarah, and his tears turned to tears of joy. 

Alas, Kaeman was not fated for a happy life. His destiny was that of pain and suffering.

A spear pierced through Kaeman's heart, thrown by a stray soldier. In his panic, the only thing he could think to do was protect Sarah. With all the strength he could muster, he stopped the spear in its tracks, preventing it from impaling his wife as well. 

Kaeman then heard the worst sound he could imagine, a scream of grief from Sarah as she saw him fall to the floor. The spear drove further through his body upon impact with the ground, and Kaeman felt his consciousness fading. 

His vision faded in and out, and he saw glimpses of Sarah kneeling over his body and crying out in anguish, tears rolling down her beautiful face. He could barely move his arms.

Kaeman tried to stand, and removed the spear from his chest. The last thing he could think to do is protect Sarah. That was the goal. He collapsed onto his stomach and began flipping through the pages of the Necronomicon.

He found the page he was looking for, but it was too late. All he could do was point to it and hope that Sarah knew what to do. His vision faded for the last time and he felt withering occurring across his whole body...

This was how he fell, then... By a single spear, blinded by love.

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